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Edge city

An edge city is a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown or central business district, in what had previously been a suburban, residential or rural area. The term was popularized by the 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier by Joel Garreau, who established its current meaning while working as a…

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Edge city

Nodes75
Edges74
Triples112
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026667
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related to Political relations · 25
Edge city → According, Americans, As, County, Dear, Depending, Edge Cities, Fairfax, Fairfax County Board, In, It, More, Phelps, Political, Politics, Similar, Some, State, Supervisors, There
related to Types of edge cities · 11
Edge city → Arlington, Boomburbs, Garreau, Greenfields, Potomac River, Reston, Reston Town Center, Tysons, Uptowns, Virginia, Washington
related to Relation with metropolitan area · 10
Edge city → Also, Developers, Edge, Garreau, In, Shifts, That, The, There, Today
related to Mobility · 9
Edge city → Beverly Hills Freeway, Century City, Century Fox, Edge, In, Line, Los Angeles, More, Neither
has impact · 8
Edge city → Edge, Garreau, Not, Progressively, The, These, This, Through Garreau
related to Densification · 8
Edge city → Fairfax County, For, Future, The, To, Today, Tysons, Washington
related to Outside North America · 8
Edge city → American, Bangalore, China, Despite, Dubai, For, India, United Arab Emirates
related to Sustainability · 8
Edge city → As, Because, CBDs, Century City, Pedestrian, Revitalization, The, Tysons
related to External links · 7
Edge city → Edgier Cities, Garreau's, Joel Garreau's, McCrory, New Urban Form, Same Old Megalopolis, The Edge City Fallacy
related to Definitions · 4
Edge city → Garreau, Has, In, Then

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Edge cityis ainformation technology center Tysons0.90text
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